Re: [PHP] Authentication

My application is only used within my company. I want to pull the NT
Authenticated user that is logged in, cross reference that user with what I
have pulled from ldap and verify the user's name is valid. If the username
is valid I will assign it to a variable and use that variable to store the
name of the user that submitted the requests.

Yes, I am trying to get a single sign on method if possible.

$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] works in bringing back the IP Address of the
computer I'm kaing the request from, but $_SERVER['REMOTE_USER'] does not
return anything.


On 7/27/07, Richard Lynch <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, July 27, 2007 12:51 pm, Dan Shirah wrote:
I looked on PHP.net but I couldn't not find anything suitable to
answer my
question.

Within PHP, is there a way to pull the name of the user that is
currently
logged into the PC?

That data is not transmitted, by design, in an HTTP request.

I know with some of the _SERVER functions you can pull the IP of the
machine
and other data, is there a function within this family that would
work?

If you can find a JavaScript function to snoop the username, you could
then write that into the URL, I suppose...

But I suspect that, by design, JavaScript does not do this either.

Basically, the username on the visitor's computer is both meaningless
and far far far too private to be handing it out arbitrarily.

It's meaningless in that any user can buy a PC and set up any username
they want on it, and your webserver has NO IDEA what that username
means.

It's far far far too private, because it's none of your business to
know who I am when I'm surfing.

If you're trying to get some kind of "one login" system going, there
may or may not be some useful info in the ever-reappearing thread
regarding "Active Directory" and/or LDAP.

If you're trying to do something else, post whatever it is you are
trying to do, and perhaps you'll get some help.

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